Catherine Lacey is the author of five books: Biography of X, Pew, The Answers, Nobody Is Ever Missing, and a short story collection, Certain American States.

 

Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library.

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She is a fellow at the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library for 2023-24, but is based in Mexico.

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